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Abbas Ali Baig
Abbas Ali Baig
Born: 19 March 1939, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Major Teams: Hyderabad, Oxford University, Somerset, India.
Known As: Abbas Ali Baig
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Leg Break
Test Debut: India v England at Manchester, 4th Test, 1959
Last Test: India v West Indies at Calcutta, 2nd Test, 1966/67
First Class Debut: Hyderabad (India) v Andhra at Hyderabad, 1954/55
Last First Class Match: Hyderabad (India) v Bombay at Bombay (Wankhede Stadium), 1975/76
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 10 18 0 428 112 23.77 1 2 6 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 3 0 15 0 - - 0 0 - 5.00
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1954/55 - 1975/76)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100s Ct St
Batting & Fielding 235 391 29 12367 224* 34.16 21 154 0
R W Ave BBI 5 10
Bowling 432 9 48.00 2-26 0 0
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 0 - - - - - - - - -
Balls M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 0 - - - - - - - - -
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
A classy right handed strokeplayer, Abbas Ali Baig remains one of the
tragic figures of Indian cricket. For a man of his talent and skill,
only ten Tests over a first class career that stretched over two
decades was scant reward. But Baig's brush with immortality is in the
record books for his memorable feat in scoring a century in his first
Test. Coming in a replacement for the injured Vijay Manjrekar, Baig
hit a superb 112 at Old Trafford. Not only was he the first to
accomplish the feat outside India, but at 20 years, 131 days he was
then the youngest Indian to get a Test hundred. He performed
creditably against the strong Australian side in 1959-60, notching up
50 and 58 in the third Test at Bombay, to play a notable role in India
drawing the game. Against Pakistan the following season he failed in
four innings and was dropped. Despite scoring heavily in the Ranji
Trophy and Duleep Trophy tournaments, he was not brought back until
six years later, when he played two Tests against West Indies. He was
only moderately successful but he was dropped and never again played
Test cricket. However he remained elegance personified and fought his
way back into the Indian team that toured England in 1971 as opening
batsman after being distinctly unlucky to miss the trip to West Indies
earlier that year. But he was overlooked for the Tests, though Ashok
Mankad had a wretched series and that remained the extent of his
international career.
Along with other stars like Jaisimha, Pataudi, Abid Ali, Jayantilal,
Krishnamurthy, Govindraj and Asif Iqbal Razvi (before he migrated to
Pakistan), Baig formed the nucleus of a strong and attractive, if
inconsistent Hyderabad side from the late fifties to the early
seventies. In a long first class career, Baig scored 12,367 runs
(34.16) with 21 centuries with a highest score of 224 not out for
South Zone against North Zone in 1966-67. He earned a Blue at Oxford.
(Partab Ramchand)
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